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Police blotter: July 27, 2010

The Mesa County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified the man who died Sunday at the “potholes” on Glade Park as 27-year-old Michael Jacob “Jake” Higgins of Grand Junction.

Higgins fell about 40 feet onto rocks near the Little Dolores River. According to a news release from the coroner’s office, the death was an accident, and the cause of death was blunt-force head injuries.

Alcohol and marijuana use contributed to the accident, according to the coroner’s office.

Sexual assault alleged

Mesa County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested a 21-year-old man Sunday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in Gateway.

According to an arrest affidavit for Colt R. Pace, the boy told deputies Pace grabbed the boy’s crotch at Gateway Canyons Resort, grabbed the boy’s neck and pulled the boy’s hand to Pace’s groin. The boy also told deputies Pace slammed into the boy’s ATV with his truck after the incident.

Pace told deputies the two were just “horsing around,” according to the affidavit.

Pace was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by force, harassment with physical contact, simple child abuse, criminal mischief and criminal attempt.

According to the Grand Junction Police Department:

Tracy Brown, 35, was issued a summons Sunday on suspicion of indecent exposure after she allegedly took off her clothes while in public view.